Council backs pensions campaigners in row with Government

0 Have your say Northumberland County Council is to press the Government over its ‘failure’ to give adequate notice on changes to retirement dates for women.
There was unanimous agreement across the political parties at yesterday’s full council to call on the Government to make transitional arrangements for women born on or after April 6, 1951, ‘who have unfairly borne the burden of the increase to the state pension age (SPA) with a lack of appropriate notification’.
Deputy business chairman, Coun Liz Simpson, who proposed the motion, said: “More than one-and-a-half million women had... read more

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